Automatic conveyer or feeding apparatus.



A. BARTELSA; 0. MIEGH. AUTOMATIC GONVBYBR 0R PBBDING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 23, 1913.

Patented Apr. 14, 19ML liv/Ueli', 5072.5'

7026 Q15 WMM- AMANUS BARTELS AND OT'l MCECH,

Specieation er' Letters Patent.

ira-tentes apr. ia, ieri.

Application filed April 23, 1913. Serial No. 763,046.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that We, AMANnUs BAnrnLs and OrroMinori, subjects of the King' of Prussia, German Emperor, residing atHarburg-on-the-Elbe, Prussia, German Empire, have invented certain newand use-ful In'xprovement's in Automatic Conveyers or Feeding Apparatus,of which the following is a specification.

rlihis invention relates to improvements in means for automatically ,anduniformly feeding disks of vulcanite, Celluloid or similar material to aconveyer, from ywhich they are directed to other mechanism to bei'urther treated.

rlhe prime object of the present invention is to provide improved meanst'or individually feeding the disks, the mechanism being so constructedand timed as to be operated upon each complete revolution of theconveyer. l y

The invention also eomprehends improvements' in the construction andarrangement of parts Which Will be hereinafter described andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings: Figure l is a vertical central section illustrating theapplication of our invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. isa detail bottom plan view of the feed hopper.

b indicates a cylindrical hopper formed in its bottoni with a transverseslot d, and in one Wall with 'a horizontal slot e, the lattercommunicating with the slot d. Below the hopper is a trough it, having aperforated false bottom Z. Uperating in the trough is ascrew conveyerz', mounted on a horizontal shaft e, supported in bearings formed insaid trough. Fixed tothe shaft e, is an arm f, which is of such lengthas to pass through the transverse slot (Z, as will be presentlydescribed. Extended Jfrom the bottom ot the hopper i), to a pointoverthe conveyor z', is an inclined chute g, Which-directs disks fromthe hopper to the conveyer.

1n operation, disks indicated at a are placed in the hopper Z) and asthe screw conieyer is rotated, the arm f is also rotated.

The end of the arm f' passes through the slot ci behind the lowermostdisk and ejects the latter through the horizontal slot c, and onto thechute g from whence said disk falls into the trough and is advancedalong the false bottom. The conveyer gradually advances the disks alongthe false bottom, during which time they. are subjected to heat, thelatter being supplied by a burner Je, located ,under the trough.

Ubviously by the construction described, a disk will be fed upon thecompletion of each revolution 4of the .convey/er, conseqnently an evendistribution of the disks will at all times be insured.

Ville claim:-

l. An apparatus of the class described comprising a conveyer including arotary shaft, an arm fixed to and extending from said shaft, a feedchute located over the arm and with which the latter coperates to ejecta blank, and a guide from the feed chute to the conveyer. y l

'2. An apparatus of the class described comprising a conveyer includinga shaft, an arm extending from the shaft, a feed chute located in thepath of movement ot the arm and formed with a transverse and horizontalslot, the end of the arm passing through the transverse slot to eject ablank through the horizontal slot, and a guide extending from the feedchute to the conveyor to direct the blanks to the latter.

ln testimony whereof we afix our signa-- tures in presence ot tivoWitnesses.

DR. All/lh NDUS Bilt-RTELS. OTTO Ml'EUH.

Witnesses:

lCnNics'r H. L. lllU..\mn.Niroir, lm. CHRIST. l-laruuirANN.

